1. Key Number Digests

2. Key Numbers and Key Number Digests
West’s Key Number Digests are the research link between Key Numbers and the National Reporter System cases.
The digests contain the headnotes (digest paragraphs) and their corresponding topic and key numbers from every set of cases in the National Reporter System.
The headnotes (digest paragraphs) are organized first alphabetically by topic and then numerically by key number.

3. Key Number Digests Digest sets include: State digests Regional digests
Federal Practice Digest
Specialty subjects, such as Bankruptcy, Military Justice, Federal Claims, and Education Law digests
Decennial digests, which contain all headnotes from cases for each 10-year period beginning with 1897
The Century Digest, which contains headnotes from cases from 1658 to 1896

4. West’s Key Number Digests
Each digest series spans many volumes and is organized first alphabetically by topic then numerically by key number.

5. This is a page from the Minnesota Digest
Listed are all the headnotes (digest paragraphs) from Minnesota cases that discuss the points of law assigned to specific key numbers 8, 2, 9, and 12 under the topic of Abatement and Revival.